Is that a white robe or do you think you are Jesus Christ?
The French magazine Purple has Ms. Lindsay Lohan on the cover. She is dressed in a flowing white garment with her arms stretched outward, parallel to the ground. It could have been just another photo shoot except for the crown of thorns she is wearing.
Is this art or sacrilege? A confusion of props or a deliberate confection of symbolism?
Jamie Campbell is co-owner of the avant-garde Baltimore emporium, Shine, www.shopshinecollective.com. As the proprietor of an edgy, fashion forward boutique, she is aware of art and couture. She really likes the image. Jamie reflected on this specific iconography and the public persona of the young actress. Lohan, after endless tabloid stories, must sometimes feel martyred herself. She is often denigrated. Jamie admires this (and other) work of the photographer, Terry Richardson, www.terryrichardson.com. The image also reminded her of one of her favorite parts of the Bible where Jesus declares that in the lowest of people, you will find me.
But how do religious leaders view this image?
Merry Moises is an Old Catholic priest with the North American Old Catholic Church (www.naoldcatholic.com). “I saw the cover and it's much to do about nothing. Lohan and the publisher want to sell magazines. Old Catholics need to be concerned about helping the elderly and sick get around in the snow and helping the people of Haiti. It's a stupid distraction taking our focus away from doing God's work.”
Chris Lockemy is pastor of the Epic Church www.theepicmovement.com in Baltimore, whose mission is to bring Jesus into peoples’ lives every day, not just on holidays and Sundays. He leads his dynamic congregation to truly understand the message of Christ. Pastor Chris is also sanguine about the picture. He states: “The usual view of Jesus in today's pop-culture is that Jesus is a pop-culture icon. With that being said most take this icon and use it in art, music and general media as an idea or a state of mind. I would hope that Ms. Lohan would take more than the likeness of Jesus, but a literal meaning of the act she is portraying, and practice some self-sacrificial love for the world around her. Something extremely uncommon among Hollywood, our American royalty.”
The above three are certainly not a random or a scientific sample. Yet they all echo the same sentiment: The importance of Jesus Christ is changing your life, for the better, through His words and actions.
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